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Drug Facts

  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • Out of every 100 people who try, only between 5 and 10 will actually be able to stop smoking on their own.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Rohypnol (The Date Rape Drug) is more commonly known as "roofies".
  • In 2011, over 800,000 Americans reported having an addiction to cocaine.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • LSD (or its full name: lysergic acid diethylamide) is a potent hallucinogen that dramatically alters your thoughts and your perception of reality.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Codeine taken with alcohol can cause mental clouding, reduced coordination and slow breathing.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.

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